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Message-ID: <20130620081218.GC15095@elgon.mountain>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:12:18 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Imre Deak <imre.deak@...el.com>,
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>,
Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] lib/scatterlist: error handling in __sg_alloc_table()
I was reviewing code which I suspected might allocate a zero size SG
table. That will cause memory corruption. Also we can't return before
doing the memset or we could end up using uninitialized memory in the
cleanup path.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
diff --git a/lib/scatterlist.c b/lib/scatterlist.c
index a1cf8ca..d39178b 100644
--- a/lib/scatterlist.c
+++ b/lib/scatterlist.c
@@ -247,13 +247,15 @@ int __sg_alloc_table(struct sg_table *table, unsigned int nents,
struct scatterlist *sg, *prv;
unsigned int left;
+ memset(table, 0, sizeof(*table));
+
+ if (nents == 0)
+ return -EINVAL;
#ifndef ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(nents > max_ents))
return -EINVAL;
#endif
- memset(table, 0, sizeof(*table));
-
left = nents;
prv = NULL;
do {
--
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